# Flash MX - Symbol Re-Spawning

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-symbol-re-spawning/14296
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 24, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-symbol-re-spawning/14296 "2003-02-24T19:13:28Z")
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### Author: ![LendlM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@LendlM](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/LendlM)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-symbol-re-spawning/14296/1 "2003-02-24T19:13:28Z")

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Hello, I’m Lendl, and this is my first post on the Kirupa Forums.  
I am a “semi” flash designer, fairly good at everything except actionscript (which means I’m really not good at anything at all).

I’m familiar with other coding languages (especially PHP and MySQL) so I can usually understand what an action script is doing; my problem comes when I try to write a script.

Thanks to sites like [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com), [Actionscript.org](http://Actionscript.org), amd Flashkit, I’ve been able to get some fairly simple scripts written, but theres’ one script that I have found NO tutorials on. Which is why I’m posting here… 😉 (Duh)

Anyway I’m tryign to find out how to do respawning. It’s a broad term in flash, so I’ll explain exactly what I’m trying to do. I create a symbol (for this example, a Square). What I want to do, is tell flash (via actionscript) to make between 15-20 copies of that symbol with random properties (such as height, width, and alpha). Then I want it to tell them to move at random speeds on an X axis.

Any ideas on how best to do this, or where I can find a tutorial about it?